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Child Drowning : Evidence for a Newly Recognized Cause of Child Mortality in Low and Middle Income Countries in Asia / Michael Linnan . [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Series:
- Innocenti working papers 2520-6796 ; no.2012/07.
- Innocenti Working Papers, 2520-6796 ; no.2012/07
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children and Youth.
- Local Subjects:
- Children and Youth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : United Nations, 2012.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Drowning is a leading cause of death among children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia, but current data greatly underestimate mortality due to drowning. This is due to the way drowning data is collected, classified and reported as well as the difficulty in correcting and adjusting the data. The sum of all the biases and uncertainties has masked the fact that drowning is a leading cause of child death in LMICs in Asia. Cost-effective, affordable and sustainable interventions appropriate for LMICs are available to address this newly recognized and significant killer of children. Large numbers of these deaths could be prevented annually if these drowning interventions were included in current country programmes. When implemented at national scale and as an integral part of country programmes, the prevention of these drowning deaths, which mostly occur in early childhood, would result in a rapid decrease in early childhood mortality and contribute to meeting Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG4). In older children, where drowning is a leading cause of death before adolescence, it would allow a larger proportion of children to reach adulthood.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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